Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.... — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
